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More widespread use of DNS-over-TLS/HTTPS/QUIC can't come soon enough

The article mentions that Food Link and Giant (both part of Ahold Delhaize USA) are two supermarkets that responded to the ACLU survey saying that they do not use face recognition.…

This is also a good point. There's the related problem of the extension author selling the extension to a shady company for some extra bucks, who then pushes out an auto-installing…

I'm also excited to see where this leads. From the release notes: > Go programs currently compile to one WebAssembly module that includes the Go runtime for goroutine scheduling, g…

Wow, I didn't know that they just shut down this month. I definitely still have the add-on installed in all my browsers, and thought it was still syncing...

You still see these "trackless trolleys" in Boston too where some of the old streetcar and trolley lines used to be. (Unfortunately, most of those streetcars were replaced with die…

I think it would be useful to implement some security against this at the registrar level (until a better fix is more broadly available). For example, if I'm registering "epic.com"…

The point of standards for browsers is that you shouldn't need a polyfill just to support a feature (localStorage) in one browser. Ideally, it would just destroy its contents after…

Probably not normal people using cards, but it wouldn't be hard to train cashiers/managers what to look for. However, this would probably just lead to shimmers made out of clear pl…

I feel like, instead of MITM'ing all TLS connections, antivirus companies could implement this same thing in a browser extension. If good ad blockers can prevent requests for ads f…

If you run your own mail server, it's hard to get email deliverability to the inboxes of people who use the Big 3 (Gmail, yahoo mail, Outlook.com). This makes using these privacy-i…

So you are one of those sites that reject email addresses with "+" in it?

I've found that Google's Messenger app[0] is a nice, no-frills SMS app (not to be confused with Google's other messaging apps, or any of the other apps called "Messenger") [0] http…